Recipes for My Frugal Plant-Based Thanksgiving
Here are all the recipes, plus some tips for everything to make my Thanksgiving Dinner I wrote about earlier. It might actually cost as low as $26, depending on how much the tofu and cider cost. Everyone eats vegan at my house. 🙂 My daughter and I are both vegan, with slight differences. I try […]
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The Price of Rice
Strategies Used: Buying in Bulk and Price Book We eat A LOT of rice at my house. It makes an appearance at dinner alongside tostadas, burritos, with stir fried veggies and tofu, etc. My daughter even likes a bowl of it plain with seaweed. I have been known to eat it for breakfast with almond […]
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Warning to Vegans: Vitamin D3 in Cereal
I just discovered that some of my daughter’s favorite cereals contain Vitamin D3, which is not vegan and most likely derived from sheep. 🙁 Apparently, Kellogg’s and other cereal manufacturers starting adding this to their products, including cereal. I have been vegan 8 years and vegetarian almost 30 years and this was news to […]
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What I Buy at Trader Joe’s
Bananas $.33/lb.! There are a few things I buy on a monthly basis at Trader Joe’s that I have verified are at the lowest price available anywhere in my area. On occasion I will also buy Marshmallows (they are gelatin-free), and Pita Breads. These prices are based on my store in the San Francisco Bay […]
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Cooking from Scratch
This is Part 1 of many posts to come in the series: The Penny Pantry System, Strategies to Save the Most Money on Your Groceries Strategy #1: Cooking from Scratch One of the strategies I use to save the most money on my grocery expenses is to make food from scratch. I was shocked when […]
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6 Free Avocados at Sprouts!
If you live near a Sprouts Farmers’ Market, you can score free avocados starting tomorrow! Sprouts is having a Friday, Saturday and Sunday 3 day sale: $1 for 3 avocados. There are 2 coupons available to print right now on Coupons.com. One will get you 3 avocados for free, the other will get you 3 […]
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